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About the Contest

Welcome to the 2018 WHERE Challenge Sponsored by Teck. The Challenge is a national contest endorsed by the Canadian Earth sciences community that asks students aged 9 - 14 years to discover the answers to these questions: What on Earth is in your stuff and WHERE on Earth does it come from? WHERE stands for the places where Earth scientists work: Water, Hazards, Energy, Resources, and Environment. There are thousands of dollars in prizes to be won and you can enter as a group, an individual or a school. All you have to do is use your imagination and dig up some interesting facts about your stuff. The 2018 WHERE Challenge runs from September 17, 2018 to March 7, 2019.

Pick a favourite object in your home, school or playground, identify one or more non-renewable Earth resources* needed to make that object and tell us WHERE on Earth those resources come from. You may be surprised by how many are found in Canada. Your story can be told through an essay, a poem, a song or a play, a painting or a poster, an audio, video or multimedia presentation or anything else you can dream up. The more original, the better.

All winners will be announced May 13, 2019. Winning entries may be used as promotional tools to demonstrate how non-renewable Earth resources are essential to our everyday lives.

*Non-renewable Earth resources are substances which occur naturally within the Earth and must be mined, quarried or pumped out from underground. These resources are found in limited quantities and are consumed more quickly than natural processes can replace them.

Some examples of non-renewable Earth resources include:

Fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas (used to make plastic)

Metallic minerals such as hematite (iron ore), used to make steel

Rocks such as limestone, used to make cement

Industrial Minerals such as Quartz sand, used to make glass

Many non-renewable Earth resources are recyclable (e.g. glass and aluminum pop cans) but only a small proportion of what is produced is recycled.

The following are NOT considered non-renewable Earth resources:

Trees and plants (used to make lumber, fabric and paper)

Water

Food: fruit and cereals; meat from animals

Geothermal energy

Wind energy

Getting Started

Need some inspiration? Here are a couple of links to help you get started:

Snowmobile Poster
Look at a snowmobile. Do you see a sleek, powerful machine or a pile of Earth resources? It's both! Snowmobiles are made from many resources extracted from the Earth. View poster >

Cutting Edge Poster
Ice, training, muscle, passion, determination...skaters need them all to get to the top of their sport. But there's more. The equipment, the venues... Earth resources make it happen. View poster >

Power to the People Poster
Canadians use a great deal of energy equivalent to nearly 7,500 kg of oil per person annually. We also produce a great deal of energy, adding alternative energy sources and new power storage methods more and more to the mix. Whatever energy sources we use, the metals and minerals of the Earth, along with the people who find and process them, make them possible. View poster >

Medicine: From the Ground Up Poster
The Earth supplies us with the metals and minerals that contain the necessary components for dietary essentials, care regimes, surgical instruments, medical devices, diagnostic aids and life-saving treatments.
View poster >

Remember, all you have to do is tell a story about any object in your home or school. Tell us about one or more non-renewable Earth resources needed to make that object and WHERE on Earth those resources come from. Your entry can be anything that tells a story: a poster, a dance, a song, a play, a video, a multi-media presentation or anything else you can think of. So dream big, and have fun!

Contest Instructions

Get ready to turn your imagination loose and develop a creative message to answer the WHERE Challenge: What on Earth is in your stuff and WHERE on Earth does it come from? You may submit an individual entry or enter with a group, youth organization (scouts, guides, 4H, etc) or classroom.

Here's how to get started:

1. Select an everyday object at home or school;

2. Identify one or more non-renewable Earth resources* needed to make that object (such as copper, iron, or silicon);

3. Tell us WHERE on Earth those non-renewable resources were discovered and produced. Were any of them discovered here in Canada?

Now you're ready to create a story to explain why non-renewable Earth resources are so important in our daily lives. Your story can be told through an essay, a poem, a song or a play, a painting or a poster, an audio, video or multimedia presentation or anything else you can dream up! Remember, your entry may be used as a promotional tool to demonstrate how non-renewable Earth resources are essential to our everyday lives.

*Non-renewable resources are substances which occur naturally within the Earth and must be mined, quarried or pumped out from underground. These resources are found in limited quantities and are consumed more quickly than natural processes can replace them.

Some examples of non-renewable Earth resources include:

Fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas (used to make plastic)

Metallic minerals such as hematite (iron ore), used to make steel

Rocks such as limestone, used to make cement

Industrial Minerals such as Quartz sand, used to make glass

Many non-renewable Earth resources are recyclable (e.g. glass and aluminum pop cans) but only a small proportion of what is produced is recycled.

The following are NOT considered non-renewable Earth resources:

Trees and plants (used to make lumber, fabric and paper)

Water

Food: fruit and cereals; meat from animals

Geothermal energy

Wind energy

4. Entry guidelines are as follows:

All essays, stories, lyrics or poems must be less than 800 words. If using a sharing platform for your document, please make sure your file is available for PUBLIC viewing, not private only.

A painting or poster must be 11" x 17" or smaller and submitted at a resolution not less than 150 dpi.

A multimedia presentation must be two minutes or less.*Note: Submissions over 2 minutes will be disqualified. A script, storyboard or lyrics must accompany the submission. Please make sure your video is available for PUBLIC viewing, not private only.

To submit a video to the WHERE Challenge, simply access YouTube, find the WHERE Challenge Commercial and 'post a video response'. You will be prompted to either create a YouTube account or login if you already have one and upload your video. Finally, head over to the Entry Form and make sure you post the link to your YouTube video when you fill out a form.

Please note that all entries MUST be submitted in digital format.

How to Submit

Electronic Submission

Fill out the entry form and upload your files accordingly (if multiple files, please upload a .zip file). Electronic submission is the best method if your entry is an essay (story or research paper), an audio presentation (song or music) or imagery (painting, poster, illustration, digital painting).

Don’t forget, you can submit your entry until 11:59 p.m. (EST) March 7, 2019.Also, remember to fill out all categories on the entry form before you submit your entry. All entries will become the property of Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited, which retain the right to reprint, publish or display the entries in any format.

Please note that none of the entries will be returned.

Judging Criteria

All entries will be judged based on elements of design, accuracy of information and how thoroughly they address that WHERE Challenge questions: What on Earth is in your stuff? and WHERE on Earth does it come from?

There are three different judging rubrics developed for teachers and students. Each rubric is designed to reflect key elements of the method used to tell the story:

Graphic Art is a form of art that results in works that are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting; conventional or digital, photography, etc.

Prezi is a presentation platform (tool) that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows viewer to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
Please note: a Prezi may be considered in the following categories; 1) Literary, if the viewer has to move through the presentation themselves; or 2) Multimedia, if an animation (movement of images) guides the content without the viewer intervention.

Poetry is a form of literature (writing) that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, and images, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural transmission and more.

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying and broadcasting of moving visual images.

Rules & Conditions

The following are the rules and conditions applicable to the WHERE Challenge Sponsored byTeck Resources Limited (the "Contest Rules").

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for the WHERE Challenge (the "Contest"), a participant must be a legal resident of Canada between the ages of 9 and 14 years during the Contest submission period of September 17, 2018 to March 7, 2019 ("Contest Period")

For the purpose of these Contest Rules, "Immediate Family" means husband, wife, spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, son and daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.

An Immediate Family member of any advertising and promotional agencies or judges associated with the Contest, but not of Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Mining Matters (Mining Matters) and Teck Resources Limited, is not eligible to participate in the Contest.

Mining Matters may at any time require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof within a reasonable period of time may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Mining Matters for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading.

Mining Matters may disqualify any entry or entrant in its sole discretion, should any entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES

All entries must be submitted in a digital format.

All entries must be submitted between 6:00 a.m. EST September 17, 2018 and 11:59 p.m. EST March 7, 2019. Late entries will not be considered.

Entries will be declared invalid if they are illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, mutilated, forged, garbled or mechanically or electronically reproduced.

Eligible videos must (a) be a maximum of two minutes in length—any entries exceeding this limit will be disallowed; (b) be submitted in YouTube Supported Formats; (c) be in English or French; (d) not contain any inappropriate content including, but not limited to, content prohibited by law (invasion of privacy, defamation, copyright infringement) and (e) include a supporting script or storyboard.

All footage used in the videos is to be original. The videos must not contain any images not created by the entrants (such as pictures, photographs, stock film or images from the internet) unless clearance to use them has been received. Proof of clearance may be requested if the video is selected for an award.

Entrants are encouraged to use only original music in their videos or to use royalty-free and rights-free music. Any music used must be accompanied by the appropriate permissions and clearances. Proof of clearance may be requested if the video is selected as a prize winner.

TEACHER INCENTIVE PRIZE DRAW

Teachers who submit a minimum of ten entries from the same class before 11:59 p.m. EST December 31, 2018 will be eligible to enter a random draw to win a new tablet.

EARLY BIRD BONUS

Entrants who submit eligible contest entries prior to 11:59 p.m. EST December 31, 2018 will qualify for the Early Bird Bonus Draw. The winner of the prize will be selected by random draw.

OWNERSHIP OF ENTRIES

All entries submitted become the sole property of Mining Matters and none will be returned for any reason.

PRIZES

The odds of being selected as a potential winner are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received. Before being declared a winner, potential winners shall be required to comply with these Contest Rules.

CONTEST AWARD

On or before April 25, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, all winners will be selected by the judges from all eligible entries received. The judges, at their absolute discretion, shall select the winners based upon which entries best meet the contest criteria. All decisions of the judges will be final and binding and may not be challenged in any way.

The selected potential winners will be notified by telephone and/or email no later than the week ofApril 29, 2019 and must respond within one week (7 days) of notification. The selected potential winners’ response and consent form must be received within one week (7 days) of such notification. If the selected potential winners do not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she will be disqualified and 0will not receive a prize and another potential winner will be selected. If after three such attempts Mining Matters has not identified a winner, Mining Matters reserves the right to award the prize (or its cash equivalent) to a charity of its choice. Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited are not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of a selected potential winner to receive notification or for Mining Matters to receive a selected potential winner’s response.

RELEASE AND INDEMNITY

By entering the Contest, the entrant releases and holds Releasees, as defined in paragraph 22(a) below, harmless from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant, Releasees or any other person, including personal injury, death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize, participation in this Contest, any breach of these Contest Rules, or in any prize-related activity. The entrant agrees to fully indemnify Releasees from any and all claims by third parties relating to the Contest, without limitation.

Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete entries, notifications, responses, replies or any release. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive any prize. Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of Mining Matters or Teck Resources Limited, such as infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

By entering this Contest, entrant agrees to be bound by these Contest Rules, as posted on the WHERE Challenge website (earthsciencescanada.com) during the Contest Period. Entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Mining Matters reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant found to be: (a) violating the Contest Rules; (b) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest; (c) violating the terms of service, conditions or use and/or general rules or guidelines of any canada.com property or service; and/or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE CONTEST WEBSITE OR ANY RELATED WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, MINING MATTERS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

Entrant grants Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited the right to: (a) use his or her personal information for the purpose of Mining Matters administering the Contest; (b) use his or her name, photograph, likeness, voice, prize information and/or biographical information for publicity and promotional purposes without further compensation unless prohibited by law; and (c) use his or her name and his or her respective city and province of residence in connection with the Contest Website, other related websites and/or any other media now known or hereafter devised. Personal information will not be provided to any third party other than as provided for in these Contest Rules. Mining Matters, Teck Resources Limited and any of their third party agents will use personal information only for purposes related to this Contest and are required to protect all personal information.

Each winner will be required to execute a legal agreement and release ("Release") that:

confirms that winner’s (i) eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules; (ii) acceptance of the prize as offered; (iii) release of Mining Matters, Teck Resources Limited and their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated and related operations and their employees, directors, officers, suppliers, agents, sponsors and administrators (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of any prize, including without limitation costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising therefrom; and

grants Mining Matters and Teck Resources Limited the unrestricted right, at the their discretion, to publish without any further compensation to the winner the entry submitted, name, picture, portrait, likeness, audio and/or video recording, interview and voice and any website dissemination or broadcast thereof of that entrant for advertising and promotional purposes. The executed Release must be returned within one week (7 days) of the verification as a winner or the selected potential winner will be disqualified and the prize forfeited.

All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, logos, slogans and representations are owned by Mining Matters, Teck Resources Limited and/or their affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited.

Mining Matters reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, amend, modify or terminate all or any portion of this Contest at any time for any reason without prior notice.

These are official Contest Rules. This Contest is subject to applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. These Contest Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial or municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over Mining Matters or Teck Resources Limited.

Prizes

Up to six cash prizes in each of the three categories will be awarded directly to the winning students or student groups. (Up to three prizes will be awarded in the 9 to 11 age group and up to three will be awarded in the 12 to 14 age group for each of the three categories.)

LITERARY PRIZES

GRAPHIC ART PRIZES

MULTIMEDIA PRIZES

School Prizes (Schools)
There will be three school prizes, awarded to the school, of $750 each. School prizes are based on a combination of quality and quantity of entries from each school.

(School entries are group entries from a school or classroom with an associated teacher.)

Early Bird Bonus Draw
One winner of the Early Bird Bonus Prize of $250 will be randomly selected from entries received before 11:59 p.m. EST December 31, 2018.

Teacher Incentive Prize Draw
Teachers who submit a minimum of ten entries from the same class before 11:59 p.m. EST December 31, 2018 will be eligible to enter a random draw to win a new tablet.

Winning entrants and associated entries will be announced on the WHERE Challenge website by May 13, 2019.

Judging Rubrics

The following three judging rubrics outline the criteria that will be used to assess your entry and how it will be scored. An equal emphasis is placed on research (40%) and innovation (40%), and a lesser emphasis is placed on mechanics (20%). Twelve points is the highest score you can get in any one category; research, innovation and mechanics.

Resources

Snowmobile Poster
Look at a snowmobile. Do you see a sleek, powerful machine or a pile of Earth resources? It's both! Snowmobiles are made from many resources extracted from the Earth. View poster >

Cutting Edge Poster
Ice, training, muscle, passion, determination...skaters need them all to get to the top of their sport. But there's more. The equipment, the venues... Earth resources make it happen. View poster >

Power to the People Poster
Canadians use a great deal of energy equivalent to nearly 7,500 kg of oil per person annually. We also produce a great deal of energy, adding alternative energy sources and new power storage methods more and more to the mix. Whatever energy sources we use, the metals and minerals of the Earth, along with the people who find and process them, make them possible. View poster >

Medicine: From the Ground Up Poster
The Earth supplies us with the metals and minerals that contain the necessary components for dietary essentials, care regimes, surgical instruments, medical devices, diagnostic aids and life-saving treatments.
View poster >

Remember, all you have to do is tell a story about any object in your home or school. Tell us about one or more non-renewable Earth resources needed to make that object and WHERE on Earth those resources come from. Your entry can be anything that tells a story: a poster, a dance, a song, a play, a video, a multi-media presentation or anything else you can think of. So dream big, and have fun!

Popular Geoscience is a series of downloadable fact sheets dealing with Minerals and Rocks and Energy developed by the Geological Survey of Canada (Calgary office).

TEACHER TESTIMONIALS

"I encourage other teachers to participate in the Where Challenge. It is such a great learning opportunity for all involved with the schools -- that is students, teachers and parents as well. We all got more aware of what is around us, where it came from and what it is made of. Many of us had no idea of the processes involved in making things we use every day, from ore to metal to specific objects. We not only learned about non-renewable resources, but we also touched on international trade, careers in geoscience, prospecting and the mining industry and fabrication. We also talked about the environment and the three Rs.

"I believe my students' ideas about the world we live in changed as a result of participating in this contest. Even if we hadn't won a prize, we still would have won, coming out of the adventure with a better understanding of the world, the marvels of industry and the challenges up ahead.

"It was also a lot of fun to create the video all together, to show it to people and to explain what we learned. I know my students will want to take part in this contest again, whether as a group or individually. We all agree, it was a great and rewarding opportunity!"

Suzanne Wernli-Roy, John Field Elementary School, Hazelton, B.C.

"I had my science students participate in the WHERE Challenge and was really impressed with the professionalism of the contest and with the quality of work my students produced. I found it to be a unique and exciting opportunity that allowed students to really contemplate how Earth's resources are used and how we often take the process for granted. Students were excited that there were a multitude of presentation formats permitted (Story, Poster, Movie, etc...) and that there were cash prizes available."

"The quality of work produced by my students was exemplary and I plan on doing the WHERE Challenge again next year."

Kurt Smith, Vincent Massey Junior High School, Calgary Alberta

"It was relatively easy to integrate the WHERE Challenge into the curriculum at the grade 7 level. The kids were highly motivated largely because they got to choose what they wanted to investigate and how they would present what they had learned. You know a project is a success if at the grade 7 level students are willing to do work on it at home and really want to, rather than it being assigned as homework. I think the project met its goals in that the students learned about non-renewable resources and where they are found in the world as well as they have a better appreciation for career paths in geology, environmental science etc. We would definitely consider entering next year. I would suggest that individual prize money is less of an interest or motivator than getting prize money for the whole school."

Crystal Pearl-Hodgins, École Whitehorse Elementary, Whitehorse, Yukon

"Our students benefited greatly from the WHERE Challenge. The idea of integrating their learning into a video with an external competition increased the students' motivation. The use of technology as a medium to demonstrate learning and allowing for creativity really tapped into something special for my students. Now that we have had a great experience participating in the WHERE Challenge I will be able to incorporate this competition into my entire class as it ties in nicely with the grade 7 science unit, 'The Earth's Crust'. This year I used the WHERE Challenge as an enrichment opportunity for my gifted students, but would include more next year."

Amanda Tetrault, River Heights Middle School, Winnipeg, Manitoba

"I decided to incorporate the WHERE Challenge into my grade 8 science class. It was something that I wanted the whole class to participate in and so suggested making a magazine. The students thought that would be fun and following a discussion of all the objects we use in our lives, we broke the items into categories and each class chose a different category. I had one class study food (and its packaging), another did toys and the other did sporting equipment. Students then picked items from within these broad categories and were grouped together based on interest. Therefore in each class we had between 10 and 13 groups investigating different products. When the research portion was complete, students were given different tasks in their Language Arts class in order to produce the magazine.

"I think there were many amazing facets to this project that I have not experienced with other projects I have done with students. First, in the research process, students were looking for information that was, in some cases, very hard to find. They would come and ask me and I would honestly tell them that I had no idea what a product was made from. This made students discover different ways of researching and solving their problems. Often teachers know the answers to questions, or students assume that the teacher knows the answer but that the teacher is just withholding information. In this case, they knew that they were the only people in the room who knew certain facts and they were very proud of this. Additionally, many students ended up phoning manufacturers to get help and came across difficulty in communicating and getting information. They quickly learned the meaning of 'proprietary information'! Students discovered that they needed to formulate good questions that were specific and clear so that people would help them and give them information. In some classes students discovered that certain individuals in the class were very good at talking to people on the phone and getting the information they wanted. In this unique process, students learned about what their products are made of, where they come from and how the earth is integral to our lives.

"The project was a huge success; students were consistently engaged, they were proud of being able to find information online, they felt very mature talking to individuals on the phone and they worked past many different kinds of frustration. In the end, each class worked in small groups gathering information and as a whole class to produce the magazine. This incorporated the understanding of our world, science and LA in a cross-curricular framework in which every student was a contributor. I will definitely have my classes work on this project again next year."

Alison Stuart, Vincent Massey Junior High School, Calgary, Alberta

"As an educator, I thought the 'WHERE Challenge' fit nicely with our school's Inquiry focus on 'Connecting with Expertise' and 'Critical Thinking' Asking students to complete work that professionals tackle in the work world, makes this project authentic and engaging. To complete their research, students needed to go beyond the internet and textbooks, and connect with the manufacturers of their project topics. Students and teachers are always looking for relevant connections to the 'real world' for the work they complete in the classroom and this project met those needs. Other skills students needed for this project included problem solving, time management, creativity, editing, and perseverance."

"My students thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of researching different countries and the sources that come from the Earth. They were allowed to let their creative juices flow by making a rap or a video. They love using technology (multimedia resources) to enhance their projects either through a power point or editing their video. Our program (ScienceTrek) usually does a science fair project however the WHERE Challenge allows them to do a science project using different media that they are engaged in and take ownership in. We will definitely do this project again next year."